Millinery-display device



H. STEARNS.

' MILLINEBY DISPLAY DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED 050.11. 1918. 1,302,987.

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HUGO STEARNS, OF FREEPORT, NEW YORK.

MILLINERY-DISPLAY DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6, 1919.

Application filed December 11, 1918. Serial No. 266,228.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Hueo SiEARNs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Freeport,in the county of Nassau and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Millinery-Display Device, of. which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to displaying hat trimmings, such as feathers of a merchantable character.

Among the objects of the invention is to provide a holder which may partake of the characterof a box: or analogous receptacle to constitute a cover or closure means for the commodities, said holder being provided with means for suitably holding individual inillinery units or the like.

, Another object of the invention is to provide a display devicefor plumes, said device coniprising a base supporting a cell structure adapted to receive and hold a plurality of individual plumes, .the cell struc- I ture beingso designedand fixed-in place upon the base or mainholder as to keep the plumes in fixed position separating them from one another, andvv also to produce the best possible display. 1:; v

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of, parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the inven. tion is not restricted to the exact vdetails of.

construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a vertical transverse sectional view on the line 11 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the structure complete with the cover omitted andshowi ig only a part of the cells occupied with plumes; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail on the line 3- of Fig. 2.

In carrying out my invention in a form that has been found in my practice to be exceedingly attractive and substantial, I employ a box or carton comprising a base menu her 10 having a relatively shallow marginal flange 11,, and also a cover member 12 display devices. and has particular reference to means for:

adapted as shown to telescope within the flange 11 and having a depth materially greater than that of the flange so as to provide ample interior space for the goods to be carried and displayed therein and thereby. It must be understood that in the handling and displaying of millinery or analogous devices a set of four, six, or any other I suitable number of plumes P are adapted to be packed, shipped, or displayed in a. group by the means substantially as illustrated. By such means the plumes are held by their stems in a form or position most suitable for their protection as well as for the best possible display purposes. Being presented in a group it follows, for example, that all of the members of the group are displayed at the same time in the most advantageous position and the effect on the trade is particularly pleasing, and hence advantageous to the dealer. Not only is each plume well displayed when held by the means indicated, but the group effect adds to the esthetic result.

At or about the center of the base 10 and secured upon its inner surface is a cell structure formed of a strip of some suitable relatively firm but bendable sheet material such as strawboard, or its equivalent, and indicated as a whole at 13. The widthof the strip of sheet material from which this structure is formed is slightly less than the height of the cover member 12, and the length of such strip is sufficient to form the desired number of are shaped vertical cells 13', shown as six in number in this case. Said strip is folded upon itself along vertical bending lines 14 of which there are shown five in this instance all equally spaced from one another and the extreme ends 15 of the strip which are brought together and fastened by a rivet 16, or its equivalent, a similar fastening device being employed at each folded portion of the strip. At or adjacent to each joint or folded portion of the cell device is a foot 17 formed preferably as an integral part of the sheet structure and bent at right angles to the joint portion thereof so as to lie flat against the inner surface of the base 10. Suitable permanent fasteners such as rivets 18 are employed to pass throughcthese feet and the bas whereby the feet are locked to the base and the entire cell structure is held in fixed firm position. The concave curvature of each cell 13 is directly adapted for supporting the rounded body portion of a plume as will be appreciated in comparing the right sides of Figs. 1 and 2.

Spaced radially outward between each cell and the margin of the base 10 is a keeper 19 consisting of a strip of sheet material such as strawboard of a somewhat heavier character than that composing the cell structure, the longer axis of the keeper 19 being preferably parallel to the chord connecting the two ends of each cell. In other words-the keeper is arranged perpendicular tothat radiusof the base which passes through the center of curvature of the cell to which said keeper applies. Each keeper is fixedto the base by any suitable means such as rivetsQO on the opposite sides of its-center whereby there-isprovided a loop or slight vertical space between the inner surface of. the base and the center ofthe keeper and into which the stem s of a plume is adapted .to .be slipped directly in a direction outward from the center of the base 10. In other words the operator or dealer putting the plumein place in its cell will grasp the same, just above the end of the stenrandwill then cause the end or point of the stem to pass directly between the inner edge of the keeperand the base, theroundedportion of theplume at such time sweeping easily downward into andialong-the cell 13 therefor. .T he side or flowing portions of the plume will thus be gently but sufliciently firmly the side portions of the cell and so the plume as a whole will beheld in fixed position for shipping or display purposes. The group of plumes or the like so supported-for display on the base and the cover 12 putin place a reliable shipping package is produced, assuring that the 'millinery therein will be-carried in safe condition and always ready for immediate display when the cover is removed.

I claim:

1. The herein described display device for'plumes comprising a =base,-a cell structure fixed adjacent to the center of the base and providing a series o'findependent cell inbraced by spaces to individually receive and hold the curved body portions of a series of plumes ing the stem of the plume held in such cell space whereby the main portions of all of the plumes are grouped near the center of thedisplay device.

2. In a display device for millinery, the combination of a baseya cellwstnlcture composed of-a stripwof sheet anaterial folded uponmitself at a: plurality of places spaced equallyiromone :another aandfrom the ends ofthe strip,.mea1-1s rigidly fixing the otherwise; freeiends of :theastrip directly together, means fastening the :adj acent portions of the cell structure together adjacent to thefholding lines aforesaid, -.=said fastening means serving-to=causevthe several cell elements to assume concave forms to receive individual millinery units, and means spaced radially outward from the several cellspto locks-aid millinery units. in the several cells, substantially;as setforth.

3. The herein described shipping and displaying device r1501 'millinery .comprising a base havingaa shallow marginal flange, a cover member telescopically connected :to said flange and havingra depth materially greater than .the fla-nge, a cell structure formed of sheet :material arranged centrally within the space:betweenj'the baseand the cover, said cell structure including a plurality of concave cell units 7 for receiving and holding alike number-cf- 1nillinery units, means :to lock the-cell structure 'to one of the first mentioned cparts, said means in cluding :a plurality :of fifeet formed integral with the cell structure anidfastening-devices passing through the feet iandthe part :to Which the cell structure is attached, and keeper means fixed to-thepart to i which the cell structure is 1 connected and located radially outward from -the several "cells :thereof to lock the -mil-linery units i in their respective cells.

HUGO STEARNS. 

